Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-07
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FOR THE DEFENCE.

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HaddOck Murder Case.
Some of the Tailest Swearing on
Record in Arensdorf's Behalf.
The following is o continuation Of the
testimony for the defence in tho trial OF
Arensdorf for the murder Of Handbook.
From the Sioux City Journal of the 9th:
JOHN BEpRIcH.
/ live in Sioux CITY. / have lived there
three or four years and l am q laborer.
On the night when Haddook was killed
/ was in Aerch's saloon on Pearl street.
I know Bismarck we'll. He was in
Bismarck was not very eober. He
staggered q little. / heard the shot
fred. Bismarck was with me near
the corner of Pearl and Fifth streets
when the shot was fired and be was
drunk.
Characterization by the. state: I
boarded at the Milwaukee house. I
have been here four or five years in
Sioux City. j came here from Daven-
port, where I lived four or Ave years. /
WAS working last August ia q lumber
yard, but am not working anywhere now.
/ am boarding now at the Milwaukee
house, which Is kept by Paul Leader. /
couldn't tell where all / was on that
evening OF August 3. I don't know
where I took the first drink that night.
j conldn,t tell when I took the first
drink that evening. / don't know when ]
took the last drink that evening. I don't
know what saloons ! was i q that eve
ming. / don't know the first saloon I
was in that evening. Idon't know when
/ first mel Bismarck. It was In Lerct'H
saloon. I took one drink with Bismarck.
l don't know how long / was in the
saloon, I don't know how long after
Bismarck and / went out that the shot
was fred-Rhether it was ten. twenty or
thirty minutes, or n hour or two
hours. don't know who
was there that night. I saw
men coming In end ont. i don't
know who they were. The bartender
was there. ] don't know whether I drank
one or two glasses that night. I don't
know whether / went into the saloon with
Bismarck or not. Idon't know whether
he wHs there or not before me. Idon't
know whether / was sitting or standing
mp when ! first saw Bismarck. ( wasn't
drunk that night. looked at the clock
in Lsrch's saloon before / went out and
it WAS after 10 O'clock. don't know how
many minutes il WAS after 10 O'clock. I
don't know just when / came 10, but il
was shortly after $3.50 I think. / was
often IN Lerch,s Saloon. I don't know
when, I think I went into the saloon on
evening OK two after ths murder Of Had
dock. / can't recollent. / don't know
whether / WAS in Lerch's saloon fifty
times after the murder. don't
keep q book OF the drinkss.I take
wouldn't swear whether I was in the
saloon onoe or fifty times after the mur-
dun t n o whether I wens.to a
saloon the night after the murder. / had
known Bismarck three years. When I
heard the shot fred ! was standing in
front OF Lerch's saloon. / don't know
whether ] stood there Ave minutes or
half an hour or two hours. I went down
So Fourth street, then to Nebraska, and
then to the Milwaukee house. I heard
of Haddock's murder while standing in
front OF Lerch's saloon. ! never talked
with; any body absIs being in Lerch's
saloon that night aith Bismarck. I didn't
tell q single person about it. / talked With
ArRo about the case on Nebraska street
lust Saturday q week age. T spoke first.
Atgo spoke to another man, / couldn't
tell who he was. He didn't say very
much. i don't know what he asked me
about. ! didn't tell him much. 1 never
told anybody about this case. / never
spoke TO Paul Leader " John Ayens-
dorf about 1t. / never mentioned it to
q human being; ave fold any body
where 1 was; never told anybody that I
saw Bismarck. / am certain about that.
/ never told my Dor mate. / heard
when Bismarck was arrested in Cslifor-
ni6y but I EeveE mentioned what / knew
to q single human being Till / came
here this morning and this is the first
time / have told.
REORGANIZATION by the defense: At
the time / saw Argo Saturday q week
ago l goid him I saw Bismarck on the
niRhE OF August 8 in Leroh'n saloon.
R.aroes-examination by the state: /
testified = while ago that never told
anybody.
10. PETERSON.
I live IN Sioux City. n have for five
years. I have worked ut the pork
house. I had been In Nebraska City and
came here in August last to visit my
brother. I remember the killing OF HAD.
dock. That night after supper / came
mp town. / came up Fourth street
across the bridge to o saloon and took q
drink. / vent back then, crossing the
north side Of the bridge. I stood
at. the corner OF Fourth and Water
streets by the tia shop. Then I met an
old friend and went together north on
Water street. 1t was about $50 O'Clock.
l left him there and went back south on
Water street. 1t was 10: 10 o'clock when
l started. i stopped in the door of the
Lone Star restaurant on the north side
OF Fourth street. near Water street.
While there / saw q buggy drive to the
stable on Water street. Then in about
ten minutes q man came out OF the
stable and turned east on Fourth street
at the Columbia house and, just as he
got about two-thitds across Water street,
q man Game up behind him from the
Columbia house and shot him. The
man staggered and tell down, and stag
gered forward and fell down again. The
man who fired the shot had on a rubber
GOAT and light brown straw hat and
light pants. He ran north on Water
street. | know John Arensdorf. The
man who fired the shot wal not John
Arensdorf. / did not see him that
night. stayed In Sunk City twelve
days afsae the mHrdef and then weut to
Norfolk. At Norfolk Marshal Snanley
came and asked me if / knew who
had killed Haddock. I told him what I
Saw and That | thought it was Leavitt.